Teenagers aren’t always easy and being a good parent can include trying times filled with uncertainty and confusion. You want to create a trusting, close relationship with your kids but it can mean facing many different roadblocks on the way to that destination. Teenagers dealing with behavioral problems…
While individual therapy session may benefit your teenager and act as a great tool to explore their feeling, create a coping mechanism and overcome any anxieties. However, there are many teens with social anxiety issues that have trouble with group therapy or teen support groups. Those same teens…
Teens spend the majority of their day looking at social media and almost always have their cellphones in close proximity. Social Media itself has become an influential tool in the lives of most teens and it has a lot of power. In fact, its also become a place…
Social Media has become a constant in the lives of our teens and the world. Many of us check our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter or browse Reddit every morning before getting out of bed. Your teen probably spends hours on Instagram and Snapchat sending ‘snaps’ and ‘dm’s’ during…
“Back in my day…” may be an all too familiar phrase when it comes to dealing with the issues that now face today’s youth. Everything from technology to social interaction has changed in the past decade and most so in the the past 30 or 40 years. Things…
If you take a good hard look at your kid, it’s easy to interpret their behavior as just looking for drama. But is it only just that? To answer one of the most important questions in psychology, many experts in teen rehab and pedagogy have touched the subject over…
All of us who have kids seem to get more and more worried when we hear news about risky behavior by teens and college students. Everything would make sense if these were individuals in difficult situations. What scares us the most is that these are stories of smart…
During the teenage period, lots of children come to contact with substances, legal or otherwise. You can’t monitor your children 24-7, so contact with such things is inevitable. Before you think about teen rehab or teen group therapy, it’s important to know how to assess the severity of…
Smartphones affect teenagers more than mere addiction to these devices. In this article, we will discuss the detrimental effects smartphones have on our teenagers. Some of these effects can exacerbate existing problems. To prevent this from happening, book an appointment at Insight Substance Abuse Treatment Center. We deal…
Depression is by far the most widespread mental illness in the world. According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, about 5% of all teens and children are afflicted by the ailment at any one time. Teens, on the off-hand, are misunderstood for being moody and…
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